As slowly closing the ‘2022’ chapter of our lives and taking a couple of festive days off to spend surrounded by our loved ones, we would like to look back and highlight the most significant moments that happened in Escape Motions this year. 

Thank you, for being a part of our incredible journey!

Even though it was another challenging year while working mostly remotely, thanks to your constant support and cheers, we are successfully transferring to a second decade of our company’s existence.

With the release of Rebelle 5 last December, we have introduced a new type of papers, diverse and detailed full-color art surfaces, and have been able to offer new unique sets throughout the year. From the standard Cold Pressed or Japanese Washi papers, to a collection of linen canvases, or wood veneer, these extraordinary textures enhance opportunities to experiment with different media and painting techniques for all Rebelle users.

We have organized several video tutorial and speed painting challenges, Halloween artwork contest, and cooperated with many artists on creating interesting painting workshops for our blog and YouTube channel.

The past couple of months carried in the spirit of our 10^th Anniversary celebrations! Thanks to many of you joining us and spreading the word, countless professional artist and hobbyist painters from all around the world could learn about our software and try it.

Finishing the year with a successful release of Rebelle 6, which our development team has worked on for months, could not be more rewarding.

Thanks to yours tremendous support, whether by joining in to help Ukrainian refugees, purchasing our software or add-ons, providing feedback and words of encouragement to our team, joining an affiliate program, challenge or a contest, or simply by liking an image in our Gallery, we continue to create a great Community of art enthusiasts together.

Our excitement for 2023 is building up! Even though we have already disclosed some exciting collaborations, such as proudly sponsoring the World Illustration Awards 2023 or partnering with Xencelabs, we are thrilled to announce that more is in the making! Be sure to sign up for our newsletter to receive weekly news and important updates.

From the Escape Motions family to yours, we are sending wishes of warmth, joy and peace this festive season.

Happy Holidays and cheers to the 2023!
Peter, Michal, Miro, Tony, Anton, Pavol, Rasto, Tomas, Jarko, Jozef, Alan, Samuel, Alzbeta & Veronika

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Cover Image by Kamila Stankiewicz

Let's finish 2022 and start 2023 with a tutorial challenge! Enjoy the Holiday break creating an instructional video using Rebelle. Submit it before January 15th, 2023, and get a chance to win US $500!

With Rebelle 6 released just a week ago, we love to see first artworks created by a great community of talented artists. Do you have a new favorite feature yet? Or have you been perfecting a style or technique during cold winter evenings? Share your knowledge with fellow Rebelle artists! 

Create your own tutorial and get a chance to win. We will reward the best three videos with a total of US $1,200! The best tutorials will be promoted on Escape Motions' YouTube, social media channels, newsletter, and our website (reaching over 100K artists).

1st Prize: US $500
2nd Prize: US $400
3rd Prize: US $300

Theme 1: Favorite Rebelle 6 Feature

Are you excited about one specific feature more than the others? Choose a new tool or a brush group and showcase how this addition enhances your painting experience or simply, makes the process much easier. Let fellow creatives know how they can use it in a practical way. In the tutorial, walk viewer through the whole painting process or showcase the use of the feature on multiple examples.

Entries for this category can be created in Rebelle 6 only (standard or Pro).
Original artwork by Martin Hanschild.

Theme 2: Winter Magic

Capture the Winter Magic in your favorite way! Whether it is a snowy mountain, festive town athmosphere, family gatherings, reindeer in the sky, fairytale or movie character, or simply anything that evokes winter magic to you. Use your favorite painting technique, or practice the one that keeps you awake at night, and create a tutorial video for artists who are seeking inspiration and improvement. 

Entries for this category can be created in Rebelle 5 or Rebelle 6 (standard or Pro).
Original artwork by Brett Tadlock.

Entry Period: December 22, 2022 – January 15, 2023

We will announce the winners on Thursday, January 19, 2023, via a newsletter. Subscribe to find out who the winners are.

How to Submit Your Entry

Create a video tutorial using Rebelle 5 or Rebelle 6 (standard or Pro). Video can be narrated in any language. Always add at least automated English subtitles to the video.

Publish the video on your YouTube channel, and add tags #rebelle and #escapemotions. Please include the link to Rebelle's website in the video description. You may use your unique affiliate link as well.

To submit your entry, fill out this form with details of your tutorial video and your contact information. We will use the contact information to reach out in case you are selected for a reward.

Entry Guidelines

• Create a tutorial video in Rebelle 5 or Rebelle 6 (standard or Pro). 
• Only tutorials that are newly published during the submission period will be eligible. Videos that have already been published cannot be accepted for the challenge.
• You may post your tutorial video in any language. English subtitles need to be added to the video.
• Please present the theme you choose at the beginning of the video.
• Video should be a minimum of 5 minutes long. Add narration, background music, and subtitles to make the content easier to understand.
• Make sure, you have the right to use the images, music, and any components of the video you enter the challenge with. Ensure that there are no third-party rights or the credits are properly listed and follow the regulations of YouTube. By submitting the entry, you confirm that you are fully responsible for your uploaded content.
• You may use the Rebelle logo in the thumbnail of the video. Please note that the use of the logo will have no impact on the judging of the submission.
• When using our logos, please note that:
  You may not alter the logo in any way, including changing the aspect ratio or dimensions, altering the color, gradients, or patterns, cropping, or flipping the logo.
• To submit your entry, fill out the form with your contact information and more details on the video. A registered Community account on the Escape Motions website is a requirement for the submission.
• If submitting more than one entry, each video needs to be submitted separately.
• Winning entries will be announced via newsletter within 10 days from the submission period closing. The winners will be contacted via email as well.
• The content of all entries may be used by Escape Motions and its affiliates to promote Escape Motions products.
• The best tutorials will be promoted on Escape Motions' YouTube, social media channels, newsletter, and our website.
• If winning the reward, the prize money will be transferred to a PayPal or bank account after issuing an invoice to Escape Motions. 

Are you ready to share your skills, tips, and tricks with fellow creatives? Do not wait any longer and start creating your own painting tutorials. We can't wait to see your submissions. Enter now!

Escape Motions Team

We’re incredibly thrilled to announce that today, we’re releasing Rebelle 6, the sixth major upgrade to the most realistic painting and drawing software. This version introduces many important additions and is packed full of awesome new features. Rebelle is becoming more powerful than ever before and we cannot wait for you to try out the new version!

Rebelle 6 has been in development for over a year and we could not be happier to let you experience it. It brings new powerful features that make it an indispensable tool for all creatives. Rebelle 6 comes in two editions - Rebelle 6 standard full of great new features and Rebelle 6 Pro that in addition offers the extra experience of Fractal Image Processing. Of course, the Pro edition also includes the already-known Pigments, NanoPixel, Color Management, and Photoshop plug-in.

Rebelle 6 New Key Features

• Liquify Tool - Rebelle 6 features a new tool that lets you push, pull, twirl, pinch, or expand any area of an image. You can work with it directly on the layer while seeing its content and use it with various default as well as user-made brushes and get extraordinary effects. In Rebelle 6 Pro, the tool uses fractal image processing for the best image quality output.
  
  
• Warp Tool - Adjust the shape or proportions of an element in your artwork without repainting it all over again. The warp tool will be easily accessed either from the Transform tool in the Tools panel or from the Edit menu. In Rebelle 6 Pro, the tool uses fractal image processing for the best image quality output.
  
  
• Innovative Fractal Image Processing - Liquify, Transform, Warp and Canvas Size tools can benefit from the image recognition machine learning algorithm for best quality output and sharp details. This feature is available in the Rebelle 6 Pro.

"You need to get Rebelle 6. It is very well designed, and powerful but simple at the same time, quite a feat in software design. The response to different settings is linear and predictable and it behaves as you would expect the paint to behave. It really needs a lot of people playing around with it, I am sure that there are many new approaches that are just waiting to be discovered. It is not just a watercolor simulator, the other tools are equally excellent. Combining them is a joy." ~ Craig Mullins, Digital Painter, and leading Concept Artist

• Advanced Transform and Canvas Size Tool - New options for transforming layers, selections, and resizing canvas are coming with Rebelle 6 Pro. You will be able to choose from three different algorithms: Nearest neighbor, Bilinear, or Fractal which is the best option for sharp details. 
  
  
• Clipping Masks - Rebelle 6 comes with new options for controlling the transparency level of a layer including a 'Clipping Mask'. This way you can use one layer's content and transparency to control another layer's visibility.
  
  
• Layer Masks - Rebelle 6 brings more masking options to the Layers panel including a 'Layer Mask'. Its great advantage is the ability to independently adjust the transparency of different areas of the layer. This is great for example when blending different layers with seamless transitions.
  
  
• Grid & Guides - New options for laying down fully customizable grids and guides will be featured in Rebelle 6. Grids are a common method in real-world painting and drawing, so this will help artists tremendously. 
  
  
• Reference Image Guides - We have also implemented guides for the reference images you open in the Reference Image panel. These additional guides will be visible in the reference image as well as on the canvas and help when you want to set the right proportions of the drawing object.
  

• Upgraded Brush Creator - Besides the redesigned and clearer Brush Creator the brush engine has been significantly upgraded to create very new brush types. Of course, this gives the artists bigger freedom in creating the perfect brush presets.
  
  
• New Brush Types - All these newly added options in Brush Creator have enabled us to create new original brushes - grunge, textured, granulation, and others, which will be available in Rebelle 6. You will have so much fun creating your presets!
  

• Favorite Brushes - Rebelle 6 will let you add your most used brushes to this tool which can list the brushes from any kind of painting tool (Oils & Acrylics, Watercolors, etc.). This feature will make the use of the most used brushes more practical.
  
  
• Stroke Length - A new 'Length' slider has been added to the Properties panel. This slider allows you to set the length of your stroke, giving you the opportunity to create a brush that 'runs out of' paint. With Paint & Mix mode you can paint the desired length of the stroke and then just mix it. You can enable the slider from the Properties panel menu > Sliders > Length. 
  

"Rebelle 6 comes full of new tools for people who just want to create art and grow as artists. There are many new features, small or big, you didn’t know you need. The Liquify tool alone is worth the upgrade, there isn’t any Liquify tool so advanced as the one in Rebelle." ~ Carles Carbonell Bernado, Digital Painter

• More than 240 Brushes - Amazing amount of brushes are coming to Rebelle 6, many of them completely new.
  
  
• Improved Pencils and Pastels - You can expect some new brush types we already talked about - grunge, scumbling, textured brush presets, improved pencils and new dry and oil pastels.
  
  
• Effect Brushes - With the new Paint Blending option you can use e.g. 'Linear Dodge' to light up the painting, or 'Linear Burn' to darken the painting. We prepared more brush presets also to color, overlay, saturate, or change the hue of the parts of the image.
  
  
• New Image Filters - New filters and filter masks have been added to Rebelle’s Filter menu. These will help you achieve the best possible look for your artwork without the need of switching to another software: Gaussian Blur, Lens Blur and Sharpen.
  
  
• Color Range for Color Filters - Modify the range of colors based on their hue using the new option implemented for all color filters (Hue/Saturation/Lightness, Colorize, etc.).
  
  
• Light and Dark Interface Theme - Switch to a dark or light interface via the Preferences panel in Rebelle 6.
  

Compare New Features of Rebelle 6 and Rebelle 6 Pro

How to Upgrade

The regular price for Rebelle 6 is $89.99 and for Rebelle 6 Pro is $149.99.

All existing owners of Rebelle 5 are eligible for a 50% discount. The upgrade price is $44.99 for the standard and $74.99 for the Pro edition. To upgrade, log in to your Community account and add Rebelle 6 or Rebelle 6 Pro upgrade to the cart. You can upgrade also directly from Rebelle 5 menu: Help > Upgrade to Rebelle 6.

Upgrading is optional, you can continue using your actual version for as long as you like.



Moreover, all Rebelle 6 users are eligible to upgrade to Rebelle 6 Pro for the price difference at any time.

Users who purchased Rebelle 5 standard (MSRP $89.99) or Rebelle 5 Pro (MSRP $149.99) from November 1st, 2022 until the release of Rebelle 6 are eligible for a free upgrade to the same edition of Rebelle 6. Log in to your Community account and go to the 'Purchases' tab - Rebelle 6 is impatiently waiting for you. :)

Spread the Word and Get a FREE Paper Set

If you upgrade to Rebelle 6, let the world know how you like it. Spread the word about Rebelle 6 release and help others experience the award-winning software. As a reward, you will get a FREE "Handmade Recycled" paper set (valued $9.99)!

How? It is easy as a brushstroke! Post to your social media, or forward it to your friends who are interested in digital painting and post a screenshot or a link of your mention on THIS FORUM THREAD. This offer is valid until December 31st, 2022.

"I have been using Rebelle software for years and it never makes me feel bored. The seed of unpredictability provided by excellent watercolors and oil simulation makes the final illustrations unique." ~ Kuzayova, Illustrator

System Requirements

Minimum: Intel i5 or equivalent AMD processor, 4 GB RAM, 200 MB hard disk space, a graphics card with 1 GB RAM (OpenGL 3.3 required for Rebelle Pro), Windows 10 (64-bit) or Mac OS X 10.14

Recommended: Intel i7 (6th gen or newer), equivalent AMD processor, or Apple M1 chip with Rosetta 2, 16 GB RAM, 1 GB hard disk space, a graphics card with 2 GB RAM: NVIDIA gtx760 for FullHD, NVIDIA gtx1060 for 4K screen, or equivalent graphics card, Windows 10 (64-bit) or Mac OS X 10.15 and newer, Wacom or Windows Ink compatible tablet.

If you aren't sure your system meets Rebelle 6 requirements, you can try the Demo first. An Internet connection is required for activation.

IMPORTANT: Rebelle 6 has a new Windows certificate. Therefore, Windows SmartScreen or your antivirus software may give you alert messages or block the installation. It is because of the low reputation in the sense that few users downloaded the file which is understandable since Rebelle 6 has just been released. The solution is putting Rebelle.exe on the exception list for your antivirus software.

"Opening Rebelle 6 for the first time was like waking up on Christmas morning, full of surprises and the realization that this was going to be something truly extraordinary." ~ Karen Bonaker, Painter and Instructor

Rebelle Papers

What's more, on the occasion of the Rebelle 6 release, enjoy 20% OFF on other software and add-ons, including Rebelle papers, canvases, and lithography stones:

Localization

We are currently working on the localization of Rebelle's user interface with our fantastic translators. If you are interested in translating the UI to your local language, don't hesitate to get in touch! Write to support@escapemotions.com, and we'll get back to you.

Become Our Affiliate

Join the Escape Motions affiliate program as our partner and start earning a commission on every sale. Find out more information on our website: escapemotions.com/affiliate

Your Feedback Is Important

We are so excited about the Rebelle 6 release! The development process is not over - we are still working to make this version as smooth and bug-free as possible. We would appreciate it if you share your thoughts on the new version - contact us via the Help > Send Feedback option available from within Rebelle 6 or drop us an email at support@escapemotions.com.

We would love to see what you can create with Rebelle 6, do not keep it for yourself! :) Upload to the online Gallery, or use #madewithrebelle in your posts on social media. We can't wait!

Keep it creative with Rebelle 6!
Your Escape Motions Team

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Cover image by Rebelle Featured Artist Georg Ireland
Blog images: Craig Mullins - See website | Pedraforca landscape by Carles | Red by Karen Bonaker | Woman Clown by Kuzayova